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Heirs to Fortuyn?

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A small plaque marks the spot where Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was gunned down.

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Heirs to Fortuyn?

City Journal | Apr 24, 2009 | Bruce Bawer

When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much
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April 24, 2009 at 3:18 am

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Fear grips immigrants after Miss. plant raid

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in an undated photo courtesy of the agency. Immigration agents have arrested 595 people at a Mississippi factory in what was the largest workplace enforcement raid in the United States to date, an immigration official said on Tuesday. REUTERS/ICE/Handout

8/27/08, By HOLBROOK MOHR, LAUREL, Miss. (AP) – A day after the largest single-workplace immigration raid in U.S. history, Elizabeth Alegria was too scared to send her son to school and worried about when she’d see her husband again.

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August 27, 2008 at 8:47 am